New Man

Mediums: cardboard, oil, gouache.
Location: private collection.

The painting refers to the Berlin period of the artist’s career. The figure of the individual of the new era, as the founders of Constructivism believed, is a purposeful person, that is to say, a person of logic, function and utility. El Lissitzky “composed” the character from the symbols of his country and of the whole progressive Europe. The human body, like everything in the world, includes triangles, ovals and circles. Lissitzky created a man who is pure geometry; perhaps this man is made as a part of the architecture. According to the author, the idea of ​​maximally simplifying the form is the return of people and art to the state of full functionality. The composition looks even more spectacular in the form of sculpture.